the abelism of this is disgusting, ya’ll will jump at any oppertunity to say its ok to euthanise disabled people. how quickly you go to “natural selection” about it, you are disgusting for calling this nuanced because of disability.
the abelism of this is disgusting, ya’ll will jump at any oppertunity to say its ok to euthanise disabled people. how quickly you go to “natural selection” about it, you are disgusting for calling this nuanced because of disability.
>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it’s all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what’s going on
>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members
>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that’s going on
Yeah, there’s a surprising amount of people who just…don’t interact with the union they are in at all. At all. And then complain when shit gets voted in they didn’t want.
Maybe get involved. Show up to shit. Just a thought.
>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it’s all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what’s going on
>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members
>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that’s going on
Yeah, there’s a surprising amount of people who just…don’t interact with the union they are in at all. At all. And then complain when shit gets voted in they didn’t want.
Maybe get involved. Show up to shit. Just a thought.
today I had a dream that there was a species of deer called “ice deer” and every winter they’d travel up North and have their babies in a frozen cavern and the babies would be sort of comatose in the cold, and then the deer would leave the babies there and migrate South until spring, and just before the first thaw, they’d go back up North and find their babies and wait for them to thaw out and wake up and they’d nurse them.
But with the Earth getting warmer and spring coming sooner and winters being less harsh up North, the babies were starting to thaw out too early, so when the Ice Deer got to them, they’d been awake already and starved to death.
So there were only like, 300 Ice Deer left. They were bigger than elks, all white with blue antlers that even the females grew, and I realized the only solution would be to somehow lead them North every year when it started thawing. As a human I could check the weather and the ice in the North Pole and when it was time to go to the babies, even if the deer thought it was still winter.
So I had to devise a plan to get the Ice Deer to follow me North to their babies on time every spring, and it just became part of my life. I did other stuff and lived life as usual while keeping track of the weather near the end of winter and I’d be like, welp it’s time to lead the deer North, and I’d set out to find their winter home.
And a lot of people were like “this isn’t a permanent solution. We need to focus on climate change so it’s fixed for good.”
and I was like dang I know but the Ice Deer need us right now so, someone’s gotta do it? And it just became a thing I did.
ppl messaging me like “I thought this was real for a minute”:
: O !!!!!!!!
Everyone asking is absolutely allowed to use the Ice Deer in their fantasy world building and in fact I encourage it bc I love the idea of this one made up animal quietly linking all of your universes.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS REAL TOO. Only until the blue antlers. What a storyteller you are @vampireapologist!
100% going to put this into a Star Trek fan fic about Andoria.
today I had a dream that there was a species of deer called “ice deer” and every winter they’d travel up North and have their babies in a frozen cavern and the babies would be sort of comatose in the cold, and then the deer would leave the babies there and migrate South until spring, and just before the first thaw, they’d go back up North and find their babies and wait for them to thaw out and wake up and they’d nurse them.
But with the Earth getting warmer and spring coming sooner and winters being less harsh up North, the babies were starting to thaw out too early, so when the Ice Deer got to them, they’d been awake already and starved to death.
So there were only like, 300 Ice Deer left. They were bigger than elks, all white with blue antlers that even the females grew, and I realized the only solution would be to somehow lead them North every year when it started thawing. As a human I could check the weather and the ice in the North Pole and when it was time to go to the babies, even if the deer thought it was still winter.
So I had to devise a plan to get the Ice Deer to follow me North to their babies on time every spring, and it just became part of my life. I did other stuff and lived life as usual while keeping track of the weather near the end of winter and I’d be like, welp it’s time to lead the deer North, and I’d set out to find their winter home.
And a lot of people were like “this isn’t a permanent solution. We need to focus on climate change so it’s fixed for good.”
and I was like dang I know but the Ice Deer need us right now so, someone’s gotta do it? And it just became a thing I did.
ppl messaging me like “I thought this was real for a minute”:
: O !!!!!!!!
Everyone asking is absolutely allowed to use the Ice Deer in their fantasy world building and in fact I encourage it bc I love the idea of this one made up animal quietly linking all of your universes.
I THOUGHT THIS WAS REAL TOO. Only until the blue antlers. What a storyteller you are @vampireapologist!
100% going to put this into a Star Trek fan fic about Andoria.
Webtoon’s new age rating standards say that a comic can’t be rated All Ages if it includes “Fully censored profanity (e.g., #$%^) in a few episodes”. Literally more restrictive than 1950s newspaper funnies!
The Berestain Bears would not be an all-ages series under Webtoon’s rating system:
Sensitive themes and topics
2 - Sensitive themes or topics such as self-harm, bullying, or abuse are mildly explored in some story arcs
the phrase “i love men’s tits” lives in my head rent free unfortunately im a lesbian who is largely neutral about men’s tits so i rarely have cause to say it. i’m saying this hoping to inspire those of you who do love men’s tits to express that love
see this is exactly the type of energy I’m looking for here
I…tried to make a meme and got carried away and made A Thing that is like partially unfinished because i spent like 3 hours on it and then got tired.
I think this is mostly scientifically accurate but truth be told, there seems to be relatively little research on succession in regards to lawns specifically (as opposed to like, pastures). I am not exaggerating how bad they are for biodiversity though—recent research has referred to them as “ecological deserts.”
My sister is doing pet play with women on roblox and I don’t have the heart to tell her it’s probably a kink for the others involved
No, I can’t emphasize enough that she’s totally clueless about anything that could be weird about it, she just thinks it’s funny. I had to sit there with a straight face as she told me about how she made this girl eat off of a plate on the ground (in roblox) and sleep in a dog bed (in roblox) whenever she misbehaved and go “oh haha that’s so funny” and pretend like everything’s normal.
maybe
how old is she
She’s in college, she isn’t like, a child
she looking for another dog?
NO
Hey is your sister single (obviously not counting her harem of dog girls)?
No she’s straight (but says she’d go gay for Taylor Swift) and has a boyfriend, sorry petplay girls
Volunteering to stand in as this person’s sister during this time of need
I have a name
This post really makes you take a deep breath and ponder…
I swear to god if this blows up enough that it gets reposted on other social media and my sister sees you all wanting to be her roblox dog…
this will be 100k notes. I feel it.
Sorry liberals, despite 400 tags saying “posts that have 100k to me,” we’re capping out at a nice cool 11k. My white ass is not making it onto tiktok, no robot lady is going to read this text, and my sister is not seeing it. Thank you all for playing
My sister is doing pet play with women on roblox and I don’t have the heart to tell her it’s probably a kink for the others involved
No, I can’t emphasize enough that she’s totally clueless about anything that could be weird about it, she just thinks it’s funny. I had to sit there with a straight face as she told me about how she made this girl eat off of a plate on the ground (in roblox) and sleep in a dog bed (in roblox) whenever she misbehaved and go “oh haha that’s so funny” and pretend like everything’s normal.
maybe
how old is she
She’s in college, she isn’t like, a child
she looking for another dog?
NO
Hey is your sister single (obviously not counting her harem of dog girls)?
No she’s straight (but says she’d go gay for Taylor Swift) and has a boyfriend, sorry petplay girls
Volunteering to stand in as this person’s sister during this time of need
I have a name
This post really makes you take a deep breath and ponder…
I swear to god if this blows up enough that it gets reposted on other social media and my sister sees you all wanting to be her roblox dog…
this will be 100k notes. I feel it.
Sorry liberals, despite 400 tags saying “posts that have 100k to me,” we’re capping out at a nice cool 11k. My white ass is not making it onto tiktok, no robot lady is going to read this text, and my sister is not seeing it. Thank you all for playing
your friends & partners will actually love it if you enforce your boundaries b/c then they will never again need to guess if they’re ever making you uncomfortable & don’t know. healthy living tip :)
Court filings show that a company called Gametech Holdings filed a “notice of opposition” against Nguyen with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in late 2023, seeking to invalidate his claim on the “Flappy Bird” name. When Nguyen, who lives in Vietnam, didn’t respond to that notice by November, the US Patent and Trademark Office entered a default judgment against him and officially canceled his trademark in January, allowing Gametech to legally claim the name.
So if you’ve ever wondered how trademark and patent acts as a tool of US imperialism and Capitalist class-dominance, here’s a good example |:T
I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.
on a related note:
And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.
Like fundamentally I don’t want to get high. I think that’s what you guys don’t understand. Coffee doesn’t make you high it has psychoactive effects but it doesn’t really “get you high”. Getting high is bad, to me. I don’t want to get high, drunk etc. I don’t want to feel weird sensations. Weird sensation = bad. Drugs are bad. But like a leaf that makes you feel energetic just a bit, that’s ok. A weird leaf with a little bit of an odd property is ok. But a drug, that you take and then it makes you high man, woah man I’m so high man, that’s not so good. That’s not what I want. Just a leaf from somewhere in the world, that’s known to give you a little bit of energy or a little bit of calm or whatever, just something like that. Just an odd leaf with a mild property. But not a fucking drug I don’t want to get high.
Like fundamentally I don’t want to get high. I think that’s what you guys don’t understand. Coffee doesn’t make you high it has psychoactive effects but it doesn’t really “get you high”. Getting high is bad, to me. I don’t want to get high, drunk etc. I don’t want to feel weird sensations. Weird sensation = bad. Drugs are bad. But like a leaf that makes you feel energetic just a bit, that’s ok. A weird leaf with a little bit of an odd property is ok. But a drug, that you take and then it makes you high man, woah man I’m so high man, that’s not so good. That’s not what I want. Just a leaf from somewhere in the world, that’s known to give you a little bit of energy or a little bit of calm or whatever, just something like that. Just an odd leaf with a mild property. But not a fucking drug I don’t want to get high.
I think the nootropics thing is like, faux-legibility, which is what bothers me. I said I agree with that anon who claimed Western society (“Western society”) overvalues legibility, but I think it’s more like… Western society (“Western society”) loves faux-legibility, metrizability that doesn’t correspond to what we actually care about. Because I do like legibility. One of the reasons I don’t mind caffeine is that its effects on me feel very legible, phenomenologically. I drink a cup of coffee and instantly I feel a noticeably more awake, maybe a little anxious if I have too much, this and that. The effect is not too strong, like being drunk, which I generally don’t like, because it changes too much and is a confusing, illegible experience.
But see, this is all feelings-based, internal. People talk about nootropics and they’re like “I take such and such milligrams of lsd every day and I can’t really feel anything but I think it’s been making me more open-minded overall, I’ve noticed XYZ improve in my life since I started doing this”. And this is like, this is like awful to me. I mean you do you but like. This is faux-legible, you know some dosage numbers but it’s not phenomenologically obvious what’s happening to you, you’re suggesting that this shit is changing your behavior in some diffuse way that you can’t pinpoint? Terrifying, baffling that you would do this to yourself. At least if I drink a bunch of coffee and then find myself sitting around worrying about something stupid, I can be like “oh, obviously this is because of all that coffee I just drank, I can tell I am too-many-cups-of-coffee anxious”. Like I’m sure drinking coffee has illegible effects too, literally everything you do has illegible effects, but trying to incur that shit on purpose through some kind of complicated scheme where you microdose this and that just seems disquieting.
It’s like… studies, right. Studies say that this and that is true, because we did a controlled trial and it was statistically significant. To me this is the worst type of science. Because like, I don’t doubt that if you do your experiments and stats well, the results are meaningful. Sure. But why? Why does the thing happen? What is actually going on. No idea, you just did a study. Whereas with physics it’s like, ok there’s still a philosophical “why” in the most abstract sense but at a more particular level it’s like “this magnetic field pushes on this thing and then makes that happen, blah blah”, it’s like, it’s describing this comprehensible sequence of events, that you can understand the workings of. That’s what science is for. To me. No wonder then that nootropics is loved by studies guys, by guys who read this and that study and are impressed by it. No wonder that nootropics is loved by such guys, according to me based on my gut right now.
I had a dream that I started seeing posts on tumblr about the “the pool water update.” It was some new change to the site, being rolled out gradually, that people mostly didn’t like.
When I got the pool water update, it turned out that when you opened up tumblr it would fill the room you were in with chlorinated water, up to the level of half an inch below your power outlets.
So to use tumblr you had to hold still, because too much movement would cause ripples that would rise to the outlets and electrify the water and kill you.
I had mixed feelings about the update. I got some pool noodles and it was nice to float around my bedroom whenever I checked tumblr. There was a trend called ‘tranquilityposting’ that I enjoyed. So not all bad.
There were a lot of blaze posts on dream-tumblr selling amulets that nullify electricity damage. Also, @max1461 claimed to have developed a 'posting technique that causes uncontrollable thrashing in 60% of tumblr users,’ and was demanding a cash ransom to not use it
I had a dream that I started seeing posts on tumblr about the “the pool water update.” It was some new change to the site, being rolled out gradually, that people mostly didn’t like.
When I got the pool water update, it turned out that when you opened up tumblr it would fill the room you were in with chlorinated water, up to the level of half an inch below your power outlets.
So to use tumblr you had to hold still, because too much movement would cause ripples that would rise to the outlets and electrify the water and kill you.
I had mixed feelings about the update. I got some pool noodles and it was nice to float around my bedroom whenever I checked tumblr. There was a trend called ‘tranquilityposting’ that I enjoyed. So not all bad.
There were a lot of blaze posts on dream-tumblr selling amulets that nullify electricity damage. Also, @max1461 claimed to have developed a 'posting technique that causes uncontrollable thrashing in 60% of tumblr users,’ and was demanding a cash ransom to not use it
I had a dream that I started seeing posts on tumblr about the “the pool water update.” It was some new change to the site, being rolled out gradually, that people mostly didn’t like.
When I got the pool water update, it turned out that when you opened up tumblr it would fill the room you were in with chlorinated water, up to the level of half an inch below your power outlets.
So to use tumblr you had to hold still, because too much movement would cause ripples that would rise to the outlets and electrify the water and kill you.
I had mixed feelings about the update. I got some pool noodles and it was nice to float around my bedroom whenever I checked tumblr. There was a trend called ‘tranquilityposting’ that I enjoyed. So not all bad.
There were a lot of blaze posts on dream-tumblr selling amulets that nullify electricity damage. Also, @max1461 claimed to have developed a 'posting technique that causes uncontrollable thrashing in 60% of tumblr users,’ and was demanding a cash ransom to not use it
I’m trying not to reblog posts on this blog but I feel that this is important to post here.
on a related note:
And for the people asking “Well if you don’t support it irl then why would you like it in fiction?!” Because when it’s happening irl real people are suffering and dying and that’s horrible and I’d never want that. But when it’s fiction, when no real people are being hurt or killed, it’s interesting to explore the experience, the effects it may have, and to an extent experience the emotions involved without actually having to experience the horrible thing. You explore scary, dangerous things from a safe distance.
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